Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report of the committee of the Imperial Conference on in ter-imperial relations is a masterpiece of evasion. It has recom mended the elimination of five words and the insertion of one comma in the royal title (TIME, Nov. 29), and it advises a few changes of formalities and formulae. But it has avoided with the greatest skill every real problem that arises...
Last week the U. S. Patent Office, making its annual report, signaled distress. It would have to have more employes, larger quarters, greater appropriations. The nation's inventive genius, or more accurately the national penchant for protecting inventive genius, had increased until there was a patent application filed for every thousandth inhabitant-110,000 in a year. The Office found itself with 58,000 applications still on the docket, despite its having cleared up 35,000 hangovers from the last three years. For the first time in history, the Office had felt obliged to rid itself of its vast...
Lobster Silk. The U. S. Department of Commerce received a report that one Dr. G. Kunike had been saving lobster and crab shells, bringing the chitin or bony structure thereof into colloidal solution, passing it through a filter press and drawing it out into artificial silk threads of greater tensile strength than the cellulose imitation. Optimists saw a new industry arising, out of fish-house garbage cans...
There had been 20 hours of final test-flying at Hampton Roads. Both planes had functioned perfectly when, loaded to weigh ten tons each, they set off (though No. 1, with Lieutenant Connell at the controls, had some difficulty rising). All night the flyers' radio reports told of perfect control and conditions-until dawn, when, cutting across Cuba, Commander Bartlett was obliged to report that his ample oil supply was unaccountably being exhausted. The motors were evidently "oil hogs." He descended at dawn at Nueva Gerona on the Isle of Pines, the non-stop flight half frustrated...
...Edward W. Eberle, chief of naval operations, gave orders for Commander Bartlett to stand by and then, as the hours passed without any word from Lieutenant Bartlett, commanded 24 Navy vessels-a battleship, cruisers, destroyers, a gunboat, a tug, a storeship and the minesweepers-to drop all other duties, report to the Cincinnati and fan out over the Caribbean on a search immediately...